{"id":18431,"date":"2011-12-31T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18431"},"modified":"2011-12-31T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T21:07:07","slug":"cougar-swimmers-do-well-at-lima-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/12\/31\/cougar-swimmers-do-well-at-lima-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar swimmers do well at Lima tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANDRA GROOMS\/<\/strong>for The Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n

LIMA — The Cougar swim teams traveled to Lima YMCA for the annual Lima Holiday Invitational involving 21 schools. The Van Wert boys placed sixth overall and the girls were ninth.\u00a0 Lima Shawnee won the meet for both boys and girls. Other schools participating included: Ada, Celina, Coldwater, Elida, Fort Recovery, Kenton, Lima Bath, Lima Central Catholic, Lima Senior, Marion Local, Minster, New Bremen, Ottawa Glandorf, Russia, St, Marys Memorial, St. Henry, Upper Scioto Valley, Versailles, and Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n

Eric Easley was the only medal winner for VWHS with a second place finish in the 100-yard backstroke.<\/em> He also scored fourth <\/sup>place in the 200-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n

Other scorers for the Cougar boys were: Kase Schalois, eighth in the 500-yard and 14th in the 100-yard freestyles; Cody Hanes, 10th in the 100-yard breaststroke and 15th in the 50-yard freestyle; Trey Stemen, 10th in the 500- yard and 16th in the 100-yard freestyles, Matt Cucciarre, 11th in the 200-yard and 15th in the 100-yard freestyles, and AJ Foster, 12th in the 100-yard and 14th in the 50-yard freestyles.<\/p>\n

Scoring for the Van Wert girls were: Taylor Grooms, seventh in the 200-yard and eighth in the 100-yard freestyles; Erin Dingle, 11th in the 500-yard freestyle; Rebecca Johnson, 13th <\/sup>in the 200-yard freestyle; Karlyn Koontz, 15th in the 500-yard freestyle and 16th in the 200-yard individual medley; Brittany Jurczyk, 15th in the 100-yard backstroke; and Hannah Stemen, 16th in the 100-yard backstroke. <\/em><\/p>\n

Both boys 200-yard medley relay teams scored: Cody Hanes, Eric Easley, Trey Stemen, and AJ Foster finished fourth and Matt Cucciarre, Daniel Silette, Kase Schalois, and Adam Jurczyk finished 13th. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of <\/em>Eric Easley, Trey Stemen, AJ Foster, Cody Hanes <\/em>finished sixth. The 400-yard freestyle teams with Kase Schalois, Adam Jurczyk, Daniel Silette and Matt Cucciarre finished 11th and Jacob Scheidt, Jon Lisa, Kory Schlatter, and Josh Overholt finished 16th. <\/em><\/p>\n

The 200-yard medley girls relay with Hannah Stemen, Brittany Jurczyk, Taylor Grooms and Erin Dingle placed 15th, while the 400-yard freestyle teams with <\/em>Brittany Jurczyk, Andi Foster, Erin Dingle, and Taylor Grooms <\/em>placed eighth and Holly Hammond, Mackenzie Agler, Rebecca Johnson, and Karlyn Koontz placed 16th.<\/p>\n

The Van Wert swimmers will next compete on January 5 when they travel to Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n

Girls Results <\/strong>(all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n

200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 15th<\/sup> (2:14.13 \u2013 Hannah Stemen, Brittany Jurczyk, Taylor Grooms, Erin Dingle), 22nd<\/sup> (2:28.80 \u2013Briana Agler, Andi Foster, Karlyn Koontz, Mackenzie Agler)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle:\u00a0 7th<\/sup> (2:12.14 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 13th<\/sup> (2:41.78 \u2013Rebecca Johnson)<\/p>\n

200 Individual Medley:\u00a0 16th<\/sup> (2:46.05 – Karlyn Koontz), 19th<\/sup> (2:47.27 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk)<\/p>\n

50 Freestyle: 18th<\/sup> (28.34 – Erin Dingle), 41st<\/sup> (30.89 – Chelsea Henning), 42nd<\/sup> (30.95 – Holly Hammond), 46th<\/sup> (31.54 \u2013Andi Foster), 54th<\/sup> (32.56 \u2013 Mackenzie Agler), \u00a064th<\/sup> (33.82- Whitney Meyers), 81st<\/sup> (35.29 \u2013 Meredith Arn), 82nd<\/sup> (35.43 \u2013 Marissa Sperry), 105th<\/sup> (44.00 \u2013 Miranda Rickard)<\/p>\n

100 Freestyle: 8th<\/sup> (59.82 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 25th<\/sup> (1:10.65 – Holly Hammond, 28th<\/sup> (1:11.53 – Andi Foster), 36th<\/sup> (1:14.51 \u2013 Chelsea Henning), 51st<\/sup> (1:20.32 \u2013 Whitney Meyers), 56th<\/sup> (1:21.53 \u2013 Meredith Arn)<\/p>\n

500 Freestyle: 11th <\/sup>(6:24.66 – Erin Dingle, 15th<\/sup> (6:35.18 \u2013 Karlyn Koontz), 21st<\/sup> (6:51.48 \u2013 Hannah Stemen)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 23rd<\/sup> (2:10.47 \u2013 Holly Hammond, Chelsea Henning, Hannah Stemen, Briana Agler), 34th<\/sup> (2:21.11 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson, Marissa Sperry, Meredith Arn, Whitney Meyers)<\/p>\n

100 Backstroke: 15th <\/sup>( 1:16.35 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk), 16th<\/sup> (1:16.37 – Hannah Stemen), 30th<\/sup> (1:26.17 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 32nd<\/sup> (1:27.57 \u2013 Mackenzie Agler), 38th<\/sup> (1:34.26 \u2013 Marissa Sperry)<\/p>\n

100 Breaststroke:\u00a0 48th<\/sup> (1:39.91 \u2013 Briana Agler)<\/p>\n

400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 8th<\/sup> (4:22.54 – Brittany Jurczyk, Andi Foster, Erin Dingle, Taylor Grooms), 16th<\/sup> (4:50.48 \u2013 Holly Hammond, Mackenzie Agler Rebecca Johnson, Karlyn Koontz), 19th<\/sup> (5:17.00 \u2013 Chelsea Henning, Marissa Sperry, Meredith Arn, Whitney Meyers)<\/p>\n

Boys Results <\/strong>(all distances in yards)<\/p>\n

200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 4th<\/sup> (1:51.62 \u2013 Cody Hanes, Eric Easley, Trey Stemen, AJ Foster), 13th<\/sup> (2:06.59 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre, Daniel Silette, Kase Schalois, Adam Jurczyk)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle: 4th<\/sup> (2:00.93 – Eric Easley), 11th <\/sup>(2:11.31 \u2013Matt Cucciarre), 21st<\/sup> (2:32.75 – Jacob Scheidt), 24th<\/sup> (2:40.79 – Josh Overholt)<\/p>\n

50 Freestyle: 14th<\/sup> (25.02 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 15th<\/sup> (25.22 – Cody Hanes), 42nd<\/sup> (28.33 \u2013 Adam Jurczyk), 69th<\/sup> (31.80 \u2013Kory Schlatter), 83rd<\/sup> (42.80 – Mitchel Mengerink)<\/p>\n

100 Freestyle: 12th<\/sup> (57.58 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 14th<\/sup> (59.01 – Kase Schalois), 15th<\/sup> (1:05.27 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre), 16th<\/sup> (59.22 – Trey Stemen), 21st<\/sup> (1:03.18 \u2013 Daniel Silette), 27th<\/sup> (1:04.07 \u2013 Adam Jurczyk), 30th<\/sup> (1:05.03 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt), 40th<\/sup> (1:10.79 \u2013 Kory Schlatter)<\/p>\n

500 Freestyle: 8th<\/sup> (5:53.33 \u2013 Kase Schalois), 10th<\/sup> (6:06.90 – Trey Stemen)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle Relay: 6th<\/sup> (1:39.66 \u2013 Eric Easley, Trey Stemen, AJ Foster, Cody Hanes), 21st<\/sup> (2:00.96 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt, Jon Lisa, Kory Schlatter, Josh Overholt)<\/p>\n

100 Backstroke: 2nd<\/sup> (57.50 \u2013 Eric Easley), 33rd<\/sup> (1:49.30 \u2013 Mitchel Mengerink)<\/p>\n

100 Breaststroke: \u00a010th<\/sup> (1:13.55 \u2013 Cody Hanes), 28th<\/sup> (1:27.05 \u2013 Jon Lisa), 31st<\/sup> (1:29.36 \u2013 Josh Overholt)<\/p>\n

400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 11th<\/sup> (4:13.06 \u2013 Kase Schalois, Adam Jurczyk, Daniel Silette, Matt Cucciarre), 16th<\/sup> (4:44.25 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt, Jon Lisa, Kory Schlatter, Josh Overholt)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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